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H. Pirenne: Bibliographie de l'Histoire de Belgique. Catalogue des sources et des ouvrages principaux relatifs a l'histoire de tous les Pays-Bas jusq'en 1598. 1902.

SOURCES:

Kervyn de Lettenhove: Relations politiques des Pays-Bas et d'Angleterre. 10 vols. 1882-91. (Covers 1556-76).

Resolution der Staaten-Generaal 1576-1609. Door N. Japikse. As yet 4 vols. (1576-84.) 1915-19.

Corpus documentorum Inquisitionis . . . Neerlandicae . . . Uitgegeven door P. Predericq. Vols. 4-6, 1900 ff.

Bibliotheca Reformatoria Neerlandica . . . Uitgegeven door S. Cramer en F. Pijper. 1903-14. 10 vols.

Collectanea van Gerardus Geldenhauer Noviomagus . . . Uitgegeven . . . door J. Prinsen. 1901.

La Chasse aux Lutheriens des Pays-Bas. Souvenirs de Francisco de Enzinas. Paris. 1910. (Memoirs of a Spanish Protestant in the Netherlands. This edition is beautifully illustrated).

Correspondance de Guillaume le Taciturne, publiee . . . par M. Gachard. 1847-57. 6 vols.

Correspondance de Philippe II sur les affaires des Pays-Bas, publiee . . . par M. Gachard. 5 vols. 1848-79.

H. Grotius: The Annals and History of the Low Country-Wars, Rendered into English by T. M[anley]. 1665.

Calendar of State Papers, Foreign, of Elizabeth, ed. J. Stevenson and others. London 1863-1916. (19 volumes to date; much material on the Netherlands).

LITERATURE.

H. Pirenne: Histoire de Belgique. Vols 3 and 4. 1907-11. (Standard work. A German translation by F. Arnheim was published of the third volume in 1907, before the French edition, and of the 4th volume, revised and slightly improved, in 1915).

P. J. Blok: History of the People of the Netherlands. Translated by Ruth Putnam. Part 2, 1907, Part 3, 1900. (Also a standard work).

E. Grossart: Charles V et Philippe II. 1910.

Felix Rachfahl: Wilhelm von Oranien und der niederlaendische Aufstand. Vols. 1 and 2. 1906-8.

Ruth Putnam: William the Silent (Heroes of the Nations). 1911.

P. Kalkoff: Anfaenge der Gegenreformation in den Niederlanden. 1903. (Monograph of value).

Geschiedenis van de Hervorming en de Hervormde Kerk der Nederlanden, door J. Reitsma. Derde, bijgewerkte en vermeerderde Druk beworkt door L. A. von Langeraad . . . en bezorgd door F. Reitsma. 1916.

J. I. Motley: The Rise of the Dutch Republic. 1855. (A classic, naturally in part superseded by later research).

J. F. Motley: The Life and Death of John of Oldenbarneveld. 1873.

J. C. Squire: William the Silent. (1918).

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